While February MLS® sales were identical to last year, dollar volume was a different story altogether with February 2012 up 12% at $191 million.
As a result, the average residential-detached sales price was ...
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As part of the annual end-of-winter "coming alive" process, commonly referred to as spring, we have the month of March. It’s a month that always offers us a few significant moments including the first couple ...
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March 1 was St. David’s Day. This patron saint of Wales is actually the only Welsh saint we have and he has been that country’s patron since the 12th century.
Very little that can be verified is know...
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Years ago, Manitoba Conservation officer Bill Stilwell revealed to a newspaper I was the working for at the time that a series of limestone caves existed in the Interlake. This was well before the caves and their mammal inha...
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by Steve Hyman
“Verbal offers are not worth the paper they are written on” — with apologies to Yogi Berra.
In my position of manager of professional standards for the Manitob...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
With New Brunswick skip Nick Thibodeau’s errant last rock striking one of the boards dividing the ice sheets at Winnipeg’s Amphitheatre Arena, Saskatchewan scored two a...
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The city’s preliminary 2012-14 operating budget is calling for an end to 14 years of property tax freezes in Winnipeg.
The budget unveiled by the executive policy committee (EPC) includes a 3.5-per-cent property tax incre...
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The month of February is a little different this year because 2012 is a leap year.
What the heck does that mean?
Well, poetically, it means:
“Thirty days hath Septembe...
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Chuck Ayres, the cartoonist responsible for the comic strip Crankshaft, has fun with the irascible Ed Crankshaft’s language shortcomings. Ed often joins parts of two separate sayings into one unbelievable sentence, for example, &ldquo...
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Hundreds of jubilant Blue Bomber fans celebrated at Winnipeg’s famous corner of Portage and Main. Despite the frigid temperature, people shouted from car roof-tops, waved beer bottles and placards, and shook hands with...
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